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Yu Zhang1, Liang Zhao1, Jianwei Wei2
1State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Frontier Science Center For Smart Materials, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Biological photosynthesis harnesses multiple visible light photons to drive thermodynamically demanding reactions, whereas realizing analogous multi-photon excitation in artificial photosynthesis remains challenging. Inspired by enzymatic cascades, we herein report a host-guest supramolecular approach to boosting consecutive multi-photon excitation (>2 photons) by confining a 9-mesityl-10-methylacridinium perchlorate (Acr+) guest within a coordination supramolecular host assembled from triphenylamine-derived ligands (TPA) with Ce─Ot-Bu nodes for efficient inert C(sp3)─H bond activation and transformation. The composition and structure of the consecutive multi-photon excitation host-guest supramolecular system were characterized by a combination of high-resolution electrospray ionization mass spectrometry, NMR, UV-vis spectrum, fluorescence spectrum, and isothermal titration calorimetry. The multi-photon excitation host-guest supramolecular system furnished a catalytic proficiency of 50 h-1 for the oxidative arylation of inert C(sp3)─H bond, representing an approximately 88-fold increase compared to methods employing strong oxidants or harsh acids, and obviously superior to the best previously reported more than two-photon system based on consecutive excitation at a single site. To our knowledge, this represents the first example of consecutive multi-photon excitation integrating three separated photo-responsive sites within a host-guest supramolecular system, which reaches superactivity for inert C(sp3)─H bond transformation, offering an attractive avenue toward low-energy light-driven challenging chemical transformations under mild conditions.
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